Re: Close enough

2001-03-02 Thread Francesco Zappa Nardelli
Hello. PC Ah, but the Spanner I was thinking of was a spaceship from a short PC story by Arthur C. Clark (or was it Azimov?). (The story tells of PC this ship flying too close to a neutron star, leaving nothing but PC a star-mangled Spanner.) I believe you are referring to Larry Niven's

Re: Close enough

2001-03-02 Thread P. T. Rourke
Afraid not. The first poster was correct: Arthur C. Clarke, "Neutron Tide." http://awpi.com/Combs/Shaggy/557.html - Original Message - From: "Francesco Zappa Nardelli" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Unicode List" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 02, 2001 6:5

Re: Close enough

2001-03-02 Thread John Cowan
Francesco Zappa Nardelli wrote: PC Ah, but the Spanner I was thinking of was a spaceship from a short PC story by Arthur C. Clark (or was it Azimov?). (The story tells of PC this ship flying too close to a neutron star, leaving nothing but PC a star-mangled Spanner.) I believe you are

Close enough

2001-02-26 Thread Dan Kolis
Wait a minute You want to insert this: ISOMORPHIC BOWL-OF-WRATH SPANNER WITH JEWS HARP ACCOMPANIMENT. Can't you use instead the existing american equivelent? "ISOMORPHIC BOWL-OF-WRATH WRENCH WITH JEWS HARP ACCOMPANIMENT" Should be close enough Dan

Re: Close enough

2001-02-26 Thread Peter_Constable
On 02/26/2001 11:53:27 AM dank wrote: Wait a minute You want to insert this: ISOMORPHIC BOWL-OF-WRATH SPANNER WITH JEWS HARP ACCOMPANIMENT. Can't you use instead the existing american equivelent? "ISOMORPHIC BOWL-OF-WRATH WRENCH WITH JEWS HARP ACCOMPANIMENT" Should be cl

Re: Close enough

2001-02-26 Thread P. T. Rourke
al Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Unicode List" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 26, 2001 3:16 PM Subject: Re: Close enough On 02/26/2001 11:53:27 AM dank wrote: Wait a minute You want to insert this: ISOMORPHIC BOWL-OF-WRATH SPANNER WITH JEWS HARP ACCOMPANIME

Re: Close enough

2001-02-26 Thread John H. Jenkins
At 12:58 PM -0800 2/26/01, P. T. Rourke wrote: It was an Asimov story, I think - I should remember for sure, but don't. But it's too similar in style to his "tell all the Foys on Sortibackenstrete that I will soon be there" punch line to give it to Clarke. (Asimov, Azimov, I doubt he'd have

Re: Close enough

2001-02-26 Thread DougEwell2
In a message dated 2001-02-26 10:38:23 Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Wait a minute You want to insert this: ISOMORPHIC BOWL-OF-WRATH SPANNER WITH JEWS HARP ACCOMPANIMENT. Can't you use instead the existing american equivelent? "ISOMORPHIC BOWL-OF-WRATH